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Episode 153: The Rooms at 221B Baker Street

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It's always fun to take a Sherlockian field trip. The British are fortunate in that they can hop on a train or in a car and find themselves at some of the original locations that inspired places in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Or certainly to Ground Zero: the rooms at 221B Baker Street in London.<br />
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In the U.S., it's not always quite so easy (even though <a href="https://bakerstreetirregulars.com/other-bsi-events/" target="_blank">the Baker Street Irregulars have hosted excursions</a> in Salt Lake City, the Vermissa Valley, and elsewhere). Which is why it's a pleasure to be able to step back in time and through the doors of 221B Baker Street in the home of Denny Dobry, BSI ("A Single Large Airy Sitting-Room") in Reading, Pennsylvania.<br />
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Burt traveled to Denny's home and descended those 17 steps to talk with Denny about a number of things, including the inspiration behind his remarkable collection of items, the Sherlockian group dedicated to recreating the famous sitting room, the BSI Trust, the Beacon Society, and more.<br />
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Episode 153: The Rooms at 221B Baker Street

“a single large airy sitting-room” [STUD] It's always fun to take a Sherlockian field trip. The British are f...

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A Very Different Holmes and Watson

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<b>"It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy" [3GAB] </b></h4>
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We recently welcomed <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose152" target="_blank">Lee Eric Shackleford</a> to the show to discuss his play <i>Holmes and Watson</i>. It was a deep discussion, rooted in the psychology behind a decades-long friendship and supposing what the main characters' reactions would have been behind the scenes, so to speak.<br />
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There is a very different kind of approach to that coming to theaters later in 2018. And all you need to know to frame it in your mind are the names of the two stars: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.<br />
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Like <i>Without a Clue</i> before it, Holmes and Watson is a farcical approach to the time-honored friends and colleagues. But rather than a simple switched identity, this time it's slapstick, potty humor, and frat boy antics.<br />
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Here's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKU-T7_rDA" target="_blank">the trailer</a>:<br />
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And as you can imagine, Traditional Sherlockians are outraged.<br />
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How dare Sony Pictures tarnish the name an honor of the greatest detective who (n)ever lived, and his stalwart companion?<br />
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They have a right to be upset. Just like some Sherlockians object to Benedict Cumberbatch or Jonny Lee Miller. Or Jeremy Brett before them. Or Basil Rathbone before many others. <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose106" target="_blank">Every generation has its Sherlock Holmes</a>. And every generation disagrees with how Sherlock Holmes is portrayed.<br />
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But who said that we have to take Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson seriously all the time?<br />
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Indeed, there are a number of instances of humorous takes on Sherlock Holmes from throughout the history of the Sherlockian world.<br />
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In <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pictorial-History-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/B000KFWY5Y" target="_blank">The Pictorial History of Sherlock Holmes</a></i>, Michael Pointer wrote:<br />
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"The massive testimony to the widespread knowledge and popularity of Sherlock Holmes is found not only in the repeated publications of the stories and all of the dramatizations and discussions of the same, but also, and especially, in the countless occasions when he has been used for comic purposes."</blockquote>
It starts as far back as 1893 with a comic strip called <i>The Adventures of Chubb-Lock Homes</i> and a stage parody called <i>Under the Clock</i>.<br />
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Not too many years later came <i>Sherlocko the Monk and Watso</i> (later named <i>Hawkshaw the Detective</i> and The Colonel).<br />
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And we daresay you've heard of the Shropshire Slasher, pursued by these fine fellows:<br />
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The succession of comedic movies about Sherlock Holmes is quick in the early days of film (we won't bore you with all of the titles, but suffice it to say Mack Sennett of 'Keystone Kops' fame was involved).<br />
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Into the 1940s, we had regular comic relief in the form of Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, who did so much damage to the reputation of the good doctor's intellect that to this day there are still people who view Watson as the <i>Boobus Britannicus</i>.<br />
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George C. Scott played a rich lawyer who has a breakdown and believes that he is Sherlock Holmes in the 1971 film <i>They Might Be Giants</i>. <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/08/remembering-gene-wilder.html" target="_blank">Gene Wilder</a> tried his hand at <i>The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes's Younger Brother</i>, with <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/03/remembering-douglas-wilmer-bsi.html#.W67se2hKjb1" target="_blank">Douglas Wilmer</a> reprising his role as Sherlock Holmes, with Thorley Walters as his Watson.<br />
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Neil Simon's 1976 film <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">Murder By Death</a></i> was a spoof of many characters in detective fiction, and in an early version, Holmes and Watson made an appearance. On television that same year, we saw Richard B. Schull, BSI ("A Fine Actor") and John Schuck as <i>Holmes and Yo-Yo</i>, an ABC network comedy about a traditional police detective and his partner who happened to be an android. And not to be outdone, NBC had <i>The Return of the World's Greatest Detective</i>, with Larry Hagman as motorcycle cop Sherman Holmes, whose bike falls on him and causes him to believe he's Sherlock Holmes (aka <i>They Might Be Giants</i> for television).<br />
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John Cleese came along in 1977 with <i>The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It</i>, followed by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i>. The less said about each, the better.<br />
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We've survived the casting of Sherlock Holmes as <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/07/thirty-years-of-great-mouse-detective.html#.W67_72hKjb0" target="_blank">a mouse</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/04/the-first-appearance-of-sherlock-holmes.html" target="_blank">a muppet</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/03/the-earliest-sherlock-holmes-star-trek.html" target="_blank">a futuristic space traveler</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/09/sherlock-holmes-in-23rd-century.html#.W67_lGhKjb0" target="_blank">a time traveler</a>, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose25" target="_blank">a singing detective</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/02/the-great-detective-pikachu-evolution.html" target="_blank">Pikachu</a>, <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2017/11/sherlock-gnomes-first-look.html" target="_blank">a garden gnome</a>, and a <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2011/12/arrived-upon-christmas-morning-blue_25.html#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=5baefee088c36ae8&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1" target="_blank">GIF</a>.<br />
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And we're supposed to have the vapors simply because Will Ferrell is involved now?<br />
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Puh-lease.<br />
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No, this certainly won't be a version of Sherlock Holmes that appeals to everyone. But to throw so much cold water on it as if to say it's a version that won't appeal to <b><i>anyone</i></b> is, to us at least, the antithesis of the Sherlockian world, as we've come to know and appreciate.<br />
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The more Sherlocks, the merrier, we say.<br />
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Some seem to think that the more merrier the Sherlocks, the more miserable Sherlockians will be.<br />
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<i>Holmes and Watson</i> premieres in the U.S. on November 9 and in the U.K. on December 26.<br />
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<i><b>Editor's note:</b> Keen observers of the trailer should watch for Hugh Laurie as Mycroft Holmes and notice that the song used in one portion is the same as in "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2010/10/must-be-very-familiar-to-you-empt_2.html" target="_blank">Baker Street: The Boys Are Back</a>."</i><br />
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A Very Different Holmes and Watson

"It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy" [3GAB] We recently welcomed Lee Eric Shackleford to the show to...

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by Scott Monty

Baker Street Elementary – Short Stories

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Who among us hasn't been tempted to short-cut assigned classroom reading with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CliffsNotes" target="_blank">CliffsNotes</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_Notes" target="_blank">York Notes</a>, in those pre-Internet days when Wikipedia wasn't readily available?<br />
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Well, the more literary-inclined have not – a group to which Sherlockians generally tend to gravitate – but for the masses, let's agree they may have.<br />
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We're reminded of Watson's recounting of his doings in Hereford with Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," whiling away his time while Holmes ran down a few clues:<br />
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A yellow-backed novel? Was Watson perusing an early version of CliffsNotes? Hardly.<br />
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Yellow-backed novels were cheap (sixpenny or shilling) editions of a book with illustrated covers of glazed and vividly illustrated yellow boards, intended for railway travellers. According to a note in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger, BSI ("The Abbey Grange"),<br />
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Episode 152: Holmes & Watson

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We currently live in an age where smoker are something of pariahs. But Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous smoker in literature. And as you can imagine, his smoking habits ranged widely. In Episode 83, we explore the incidence of cigars, cigarettes and pipes in <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles83" target="_blank">Smoke if You Got 'Em</a>.<br />
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And then there are the classics. Vincent Starrett's immortal "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/10/celebrate-national-poetry-day.html#.W5SScegzrb0" target="_blank">221B</a>," which gave us the now-legendary phrase "it's always 1895," and is often recited at the conclusion to Sherlockian society meetings. Or another favorite meeting-closer, Bill Schweikert's moving "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/11/when-i-spend-long-evening-with-holmes.html" target="_blank">A Long Evening With Holmes</a>." And the elusive and mysterious poetess laureate of the BSI, <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose135" target="_blank">Helene Yuhasova</a>.<br />
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Nominate Sherlock Holmes to the National Registry of Films

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The <a href="http://ihose.co/1916film" target="_blank">discovery of the 1916 William Gillette film <i>Sherlock Holmes</i></a> in 2014 was one of the highlights of the Sherlockian calendar.<br />
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<a href="http://ihose.co/ihose147" target="_blank">Russell Merritt, BSI</a> ("The Trepoff Murder"), the Cinémathèque Française, the San Francisco Silent Film Institute, and <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose79" target="_blank">Glen Miranker, BSI</a> ("The Origin of Tree Worship") did a fine job of restoring and <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/06/sherlock-holmes-in-san-francisco.html" target="_blank">presenting the film</a> to the public.<br />
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And now we (and the film) need <i>your</i> help.<br />
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<b>The Library of Congress</b> of the United States has a <a href="https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/about-this-program/" target="_blank">National Film Preservation Board</a> that works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America's film heritage. As part of that, the National Film Registry selects 25 films each year showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.<br />
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The Library of Congress invites you to submit your recommendations for movies to be included on the 2018 National Film Registry. Public nominations play a key role when the Librarian and Film Board are considering their final selections. To be eligible for the Registry, a film must be at least 10 years old and be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<br />
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Please click here visit the <a href="https://www.research.net/r/national-film-registry-2017" target="_blank">2018 National Film Registry Nomination Form</a>.<br />
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Once there, you will be asked for your email address and how you heard about the site (please tell them you heard about them from I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere!).<br />
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Please enter: Sherlock Holmes for the name of the film; and 1916 for the year.<br />
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Nominate Sherlock Holmes to the National Registry of Films

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Episode 151: Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen

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Mrs. Hudson. We know her as one of the stalwarts of the Baker Street Scene. Together with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mycroft, Inspector Lestrade, and Professor Moriarty, she's one of the most popular recurring characters in the Canon.<br />
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But what do we really know about her? She only made an appearance in nine of the Sherlock Holmes stories. And other than her "stately tread," we don't have any knowledge about her physical being.<br />
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Wendy Heyman-Marsaw is the author of <i>Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen</i>, a book that combines culinary curiosity with a new take on this independent and strong woman. Wendy is a longtime Sherlockian whose interests and career has taken her from the United States to England to Canada, and she joins us to talk about that journey and how it ultimately led to Mrs. Hudson's kitchen. And the book is comprised of columns that she wrote for <i>Canadian Holmes</i>, the publication of the Bootmakers of Toronto.<br />
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Episode 151: Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen

“I will cable to Mrs. Hudson” [LADY] Mrs. Hudson. We know her as one of the stalwarts of the Baker Street Scene. Togeth...

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If there's one thing that plagues every writer from time to time, it's writer's block. That is, the inability to create something due to a lack of ideas, or an inability to proceed.<br />
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When counseling others in this regard, some writers offer the helpful advice: "Just write something!" The notion is that, through the process of typing away in a stream of consciousness, the block will lift.<br />
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When one considers that Conan Doyle wrote 60 Sherlock Holmes stories (that's four novels and 56 short stories, for you folks following along at home), and that most of them had unique plots (we'll forgive him the similarities between "The Red-Headed League" and "The Three Garridebs" as one example), he did remarkably well.<br />
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Baker Street Elementary – Abstract Thinking

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Episode 150: Elementary!

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Episode 150: Elementary!

“"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.” [CROO] We'll be honest. The CBS drama series Eleme...

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Baker Street Elementary: Erector Threat

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We secretly think that the Baker Street Elementary crew deliberately tries to stump us, which makes us try even harder.<br />
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In this case, if Watson assessed our knowledge of engineering like he assessed Sherlock Holmes's knowledge of various topics in <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, it would fall somewhere between "nil" and "feeble."<br />
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You'd think that we would have planned this episode for the rainier month of April, but no! <a href="http://ihose.co/trifles79" target="_blank">Episode 79 - Umbrellas in the Canon</a> had us discussing the various rain gear we happen across in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Interestingly enough, there were precious few umbrellas mentioned.<br />
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Episode 149: Conan Doyle for the Defense

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Conan Doyle's real-life turn as Sherlock Holmes has typically been shared through the George Edalji case. But there was another case involving one Oscar Slater that has been more of a footnote than a feature. Author <b>Margalit Fox</b> set out to change that.<br />
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In <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/4314A5A" target="_blank">Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer</a></b></i>, she has crafted a fascinating true-crime narrative thanks to her career as an explanatory writer (most notably as a senior writer for <i>The New York Times</i>).<br />
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